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  Disable UAC on Vista without restarting
Time: 16:49 EST/21:49 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Madhur: This is the nice trick I found out this weekend to disable the User Access Control on Vista without making a system restart.

Although I would never recommend disabling UAC, it’s a great security feature, but sometimes programmers might want to disable it otherwise

Debugging becomes pain especially with WinDbg.

The solution is to run the following command to add the appropriate key to the registry:

reg ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

It can be enabled again through:

reg ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

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#1 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at Sunday, May 11, 2008 07:53:16 PM
Or, you could simply run TweakUAC to do each step quickly for you.
http://www.tweak-uac.com/download/

#2 By 143 (74.129.194.180) at Monday, May 12, 2008 11:11:26 AM
Why go through all this hoop jumping just go in to User Accounts.

#3 By 8556 (12.206.195.4) at Monday, May 12, 2008 02:17:02 PM
#2: The subject is UAC in Vista not user accounts.

#4 By 143 (65.221.158.226) at Monday, May 12, 2008 08:36:02 PM
If your making an installer most up to date installers now have UAC disabling feature now.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft closes these registry holes to prevent malicious code.

#5 By 71333 (99.235.145.74) at Monday, May 12, 2008 11:59:10 PM
#3, that is "officially" were the setting is at, to disable UAC.

Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\User Accounts



 

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